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My HTPC is running MCE 2005/Theatertek 2.0 and therefore MCE is using the nvidia DVD decoder supplied with TT. I use SPDIF audio out to my amplifier in the main room for 5.1 listening and therefore the audio is set-up as SPDIF in TT. As the decoder is shared between TT and MCE, the SPDIF setting applies in MCE too.

I now have a LCD TV in a second room and have fed a vga and analog audio cable to it from my HTPC. The problem I have is that now I can't have DVD decoder audio sent to both the SPDIF and analog outputs without changing the setting manually.

The only way I can see to get around this is have another DVD decoder installed on my HTPC which is set to 2-channel rather than SPDIF and have this as the preferred decoder in MCE (i.e. use MCE built in player for second room LCD and TT for HTPC room). I prefer the nvidia decoder so I really want to avoid doing this.

For information, my motherboard is an Asus nForce2 model with SPDIF output module and the standard 3.5mm jack for analog audio out.